Grant Gerlock
ReporterGrant Gerlock started covering Des Moines and central Iowa for IPR in March 2019. Before that he covered food, agriculture and rural life for Harvest Public Media at NET in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his work was recognized with a Regional Murrow Award and awards from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Grant has a master’s degree in mass communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. He grew up on a farm outside of Cumberland in southwest Iowa where he listened to public radio in the tractor. You can contact Grant at ggerlock@iowapublicradio.org.
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The vaccination rate for incarcerated Iowans is far higher than the Iowa Department of Corrections employees who oversee them. A biology professor who was disciplined for requiring masks in his classroom says his students were okay with his policy. And state lawmakers are headed back to the Iowa Statehouse for a special session on redistricting. -
Des Moines Public Schools is working with Nomi Health, one of the companies behind the Test Iowa program, to provide coronavirus testing for students, staff and their families.
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Iowa school districts can still require students and teachers to wear masks after a federal court order was extended Monday blocking enforcement of a statewide ban on school mask mandates.
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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has ended speculation on whether he will run for reelection, announcing he will seek an eighth term in 2022.
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After a discussion charged by the polarized debate over masks, the Ankeny school board voted to require them to be worn in schools, following the same decision for Johnston Tuesday evening.
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State officials were blocked from enforcing Iowa’s law against school-issued mask mandates after a federal judge ruled in favor of families challenging the law.
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The ACLU and disability rights groups are working with 11 Iowa parents in a lawsuit aimed at overturning a statewide ban on school mask mandates.
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A Des Moines man arrested after the January attack on the U.S. Capitol is going back to jail after breaking a judge’s order to stay off the internet.
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The man convicted of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has been given a sentence of life in prison without parole.
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The mother of two Council Bluffs elementary students is suing Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education over a law that bans school districts from requiring masks.
